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Queen of the Speakeasies: A Tale of Prohibition New York
EPISODE 234 Texas Guinan was the queen of the speakeasy era, the charismatic and sassy hostess of New York's hottest nightclubs of the 1920s. Her mag…
8 years, 7 months ago
#233 The Roaring '20s: King of the Jazz Age
The Bowery Boys are heading to the speakeasy and kicking back with some bathtub gin this month -- with a brand new series focusing on New York City d…
8 years, 8 months ago
#232 The Story of SoHo
Picture the neighborhood of SoHo (that’s right, "South of Houston") in your head today, and you might get a headache. Crowded sidewalks on the weeken…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Bowery Boys Present: The First Broadway Musical
While Greg and Tom are away this week on life-changing adventures, please enjoy this very New York City-centric episode of the Bowery Boys spinoff po…
8 years, 8 months ago
#231 The Stonewall Riots Revisited
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, undercover police officers attempting to raid the Stonewall Inn, a mob-controlled gay bar with darkened …
8 years, 9 months ago
#230 Before Harlem: New York's Forgotten Black Communities
Today we sometimes define New York City's African-American culture by place – Harlem, of course, and also Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, neigh…
8 years, 9 months ago
#229 Live in Brooklyn! The Bowery Boys: Ten Years of Podcasting
In early June of 2007, Tom Meyers and Greg Young sat around a laptop and a karaoke microphone, looked out over Canal Street in the Lower East Side an…
8 years, 10 months ago
#228 The Pirate of Pearl Street: The New York Adventures of Captain Kidd
The area of Lower Manhattan below Wall Street is today filled with investment bankers, business people and tourists. But did you know, over 300 years…
8 years, 10 months ago
#227 The Hindenburg Over New York
On the afternoon of May 6, 1937, New Yorkers looked overhead at an astonishing sight -- the arrival of the Hindenburg, the largest airship in the wor…
8 years, 11 months ago
#226 The Beauty Bosses of Fifth Avenue
EPISODE 226 The Midtown Manhattan stretch of Fifth Avenue, once known for its ensemble of extravagant mansions owned by the Gilded Age's wealthiest f…
8 years, 11 months ago